Staid Crossword Quotes

#1. Today, I accept divine timing. I allow the pacing of the Universe to be my own. I align myself with the tempo of my life precisely as it is unfolding.

Julia Cameron

#2. I'm never telling the truth again! It gets you hanged and locked out and starved and froze and hated ...

Frances Hardinge

#3. Okay, so I'll admit I'm curious. Big deal. We both know what that leads to. Dead cat.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#4. The Parents, as my mother and father refer to Mr. Finch and Mrs. Finch, are insisting it was an accident, which, I guess, means we're free to mourn him out in the open in a normal, healthy, unstigmatised way. No need to be ashamed or embarrassed since suicide isn't involved.

Jennifer Niven

#5. 8 You have never heard, you have never known, from of old your ear has not been opened. For I knew that you would surely deal treacherously, and that l from before birth you were called a rebel.

Anonymous

#6. I think he [Heidegger] sets the question up in a useful way and, despite appearances, he's not 'against' technology. He just wants us to have a questioning and thoughtful relation to it. This must be relevant to any approach.

George Pattison

#7. You were bred for humanity and sold to society. One day you'll wake up in the present day, a million generations removed from the expectations of being who you really want to be.

Jethro Tull

#8. I didn't ask for your help," I muttered, too exhausted to properly argue. "So fuck you."
An alarm bell went off in my head and I bit back a sigh. I swore I sensed the mischievous grin that inevitably crossed his lips.
"I already did you."
It was going to be a long drive.

Natasha McNeely

#9. The noise of the world is so terrible that we can endure it only by being coated with sleep.

Saul Bellow

#10. E felt no more than a boy again-but a very well-versed boy who couldn't help thinking of the scene described by these old words, surely the most beautiful words written or said: His father, when he saw him coming, ran to meet him.

Tobias Wolff